Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accidents like Jackson's are hardly unprecedented. Laurence Olivier, while shooting the movie Lady Hamilton in 1940, had his wig accidentally set afire by a torch; he escaped serious injury. But the toll seems to have burgeoned with the technology. Erik Estrada was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident on the set of TV's CHiPs in 1979. Another TV star, Peter Barton, suffered third-degree burns over 18% of his body in 1981 while filming his sci-fi series The Powers of Matthew Star. Dozens of stunt people and technicians have been involved in less publicized mishaps...
...young men on the stage is evidently rehearsing for a play: they say their lines and listen as the director shouts advice. But there is something odd about this wholesome-looking bunch: they speak in high falsettos, some swing their hips a la Marilyn Monroe, one wears a luxuriant wig of long, flowing curls...
However, he chose not to purchase a foot tall wig from last year's production, "Sealed With A Quiche," which was set in the French Revolution...
...Cage aux Folles is a Saint-Tropez drag club run by Georges. Its star performer is the incredible Zaza, who, when he takes off his dress and wig, is also Albin, Georges's lover for 20 years. Years ago, just to see what all the heterosexual fuss was about, Georges (Gene Barry) spent a few hours of passion with a showgirl. From that brief union came a son, Jean-Michel, who has lived ever since with Georges and Albin (George Hearn) in an apartment next door to La Cage...
...telling one sex from the other. David Engel, for example, was a football player in the film of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. In La Cage he is Hanna from Hamburg, a blond beauty with a taste for sadomasochism. "A stagehand in Boston saw me in my wig, leotards and whip," says Engel, "and said, 'Honey, you can whip me any time...